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When I was a younger teenager, I distinctly remember being in a Sunday night discipleship class where we asked the question, “Can you know the will of God?” I have long forgot the contents of that hour, but I’ve not forgotten the question. Is it possible to know the will of God? That is still […]

Many Old Testament scholars believe Psalm One was deliberately placed at the beginning of the Psalter. It describes the person who is blessed. We all want blessed lives. We certainly want God’s favor upon us. Who is the person who is blessed? What characterizes the blessed life? Psalm One is a brief and simple psalm. […]

“If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one, for God himself has given us right standing […]

These are discouraging times for American Christianity. Our freedoms – – guaranteed in the constitution and fought for since 1776– are being eroded. In my denomination, baptisms and church membership is down. It seems there are new and difficult issues every day. But the results of this week have made me feel better about the […]

I want to live at peace. This may be as important as anything in my personal life. Would you have the same desire? Do you have a goal of living at peace? When I wake up in the morning, I don’t want to be anxious. If I wake up in the middle of the night, […]